Introduction

For those who want to contribute to projects or to develop with python, PyCharm is a good IDE. He provides many features like many language (Python, Markdown, Yaml…) and great tools to develop your python library or software.

Prerequisites

You just need a python version from 2.4 up to version 3.5. Currently, your package provides it:

# Example on Debian for python 2.7
sudo apt-get install python2.7

You need to have access to a root user.

# Download Archive

First you need to download PyCharm archive here. If you have non licence, download Community Edition.

This will download a tar.gz archive. Once finished, uncompress it:

tar xzvf pycharm-community-2016.2.tar.gz -C /tmp/

Remove previous install

If you have already install PyCharm on your PC, remove old installation folder:

sudo rm -R /opt/pycharm-community

Install PyCharm

You now have a folder called pycharm-community-2016.2 in /tmp. Let’s move to /opt folder:

sudo mv /tmp/pycharm-community* /opt/pycharm-community

Making PyCharm Symlinks

Now create symlinks for your user, if this is your first Pycharm installation: